- AIIMS chief Randeep Guleria has said that India must hike vaccine production in a big way and complement it with a holistic global procurement approach to meet its Covid inoculation targets.
- PM Modi approved slew of measures under PM-CARES for Children scheme, including free education and an amount of Rs. 10 lakh on attaining the age of 23, among others .
- The Assam government has announced Chief Minister's Sishu Sewa Scheme for the welfare of those children who lost parents due to COVID-19.
- The Ministry of Education launched YUVA- Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors. It is an Author Mentorship programme to train young and budding authors belows 30 years.
- Due to COVID pandemic, Uttar Pradesh Government has cancelled the Class 10th Examination of State Education Board. Exam of Class 12th has also been rescheduled and it will not take place in the month of July and the exam pattern will also be changed.
- Apex body of broadcasters, Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has extended its purview to cover digital streaming platforms. Also, it will be renamed as Indian Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF).
- The Finance Minister said, the GST Council has decided to waive I-GST on free COVID-19 related supplies imported from abroad. So far, the IGST exemption was available only when the relief items were being imported free of cost. This exemption has been extended till 31st August.
- CRPF Chief Kuldiep Singh has been given the additional charge of the Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to replace Y C Modi, who retires on Monday.
- The Union civil aviation ministry on Friday reduced the seating capacity of domestic flights from 80% to 50% of their normal capacity from June 1. Fares for domestic travel could also get costlier as the ministry also raised the lower limit on fares by 13% to 16 %.
- The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Ship 'Sajag' was commissioned by National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval on Saturday . According to the official statement by ICG, Sajag, the third in the series of 105 m offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) was commissioned by Ajit Doval.
- Wife of Pulwama martyr Major Dhoundiyal's wife Nikita Kaul joins Indian Army Following in the footsteps of her husband Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, who laid down his life in Pulwama in 2019, was awarded SC (P).
- The sixth batch of Rafale fighter jets comprising three aircraft landed in India on Friday (28 May). The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to shortly kick off the flying operations of the second squadron of these planes in Hashmira situated in West Bengal.
- Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli said the outstanding issues relating to the border issue with India will be resolved through diplomatic channels on the basis of historical accords, maps and factual documents
- Next week BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting is going to take place. The countries have yet to work as a multilateral body to deal with pandemic.
- The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the completion of the remaining matches of Indian Premier League 2021 season in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) considering the monsoon season in India in the months of September-October this year.
- A top Kumbh Mela official Saturday said it was unfair to call it a Covid "super-spreader" as just 0.2 per cent of the total RT-PCR tests conducted in Haridwar from January 1 till the conclusion of the event returned a positive result.
- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has sent 10,000 home isolation, medical kits to his previous Lok Sabha constituency Amethi for the needy COVID-19 patients, a party leader said on Saturday.
- Fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi was seen in the custody of the police in Dominica in a photo obtained by local media on Saturday shortly after a court in the Caribbean island nation extended till Wednesday its order restraining his deportation.
- The total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 21 crore, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.
- The Delhi High Court will decide on Monday whether to allow the continuation of the Central Vista project work during the prevailing Covid pandemic.
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